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Aricent Shares 4G Growth Opportunity

The growing demand for LTE solutions in India has stimulated the prospects for technology services companies like Aricent Inc.. Aricent hopes to capture significant revenues by offering consulting services and supplying software frameworks and protocol stacks to the telecom equipment vendors.

The company claims to hold a key position as an LTE software frameworks and protocol stacks provider, and has engagements with leading telecom equipment vendors.

"We are one of the pioneers in LTE. We are a leader in femto cells even before the term was coined. We have a complete portfolio where we can assist LTE equipment vendors for better solutions," says Pratyush Dasgupta, Group Vice President, Engineering, Aricent.

The company offers Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol stacks and eNodeB Framework (eNBF) which it claims to have optimized on multiple hardware platforms that can provide a jumpstart for Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) to develop eNodeBs of the varying formfactors. It also offers LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) protocol stacks and frameworks, testing and engineering services, and packet backhaul switching solutions software framework.

New technology roll-outs like LTE have put India on the globalmap in terms of technology deployments. With over 600 million mobile subscribers, the potential market for LTE solutions is growing in the country and thats where Aricent is exploring the growth opportunity. (See India Welcomes 4G Services.)

"We also have an arm [division] primarily to address the carrier solutions. They are working with some operators directly...they are primarily into billing, etc. Since with the advent of LTE, there are new requirements which are coming," adds Dasgupta.

The telecom technology space is constantly evolving, and hence not many companies are offering the similar set of solutions and services. Aricent says its closest competitors in India are Continuous Computing Corp. and Tech Mahindra Ltd.. There are also startup companies like Agilte who are trying to compete in this space.

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